cep stands for community education partners. if kids are expelled or suspended, or when kids do something, cep is where they go. it's kind of like our consequence. if we sent marcus to cep, i'm 90% sure that would be the end for him. he wouldn't go. he'd drop out, and he'd probably end up doing whatever he had to do to make money and survive. he would not finish. >> i can't go back to cep. i went my ninth grade year. every class i slept, and i still managed to make at least a c or b. and then the second year i went, my tenth grade year, i was supposed to go there for 60 days again. it took me, like, 100 and something days, it was a lot. i didn't go to school at all. like, ever. you know, it wasn't good. >> so where do we go from here? >> give me one more chance just to come to school every day on time, you know, no trouble. you know, none of that. could you let me finish this year at sharpstown and next year play football? >> even if you play football, you've got to deal with the rest of your life. that's why i was asking you ab